Summary
Author of Milhemet breira [A War of Choice: The Road to Sinai and Back 1956-1957] (1994), quoted at length in Appendix 8 of Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace for the invented Fedayeen ruse (Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, PDF p.552-556).
Details
- Kafkafi quotes Avraham Dar’s 1974 interview (Hagana Archive, file 80/299/74) on dressing Israeli officers as Fedayeen, and reproduces the Lamerhav and Haaretz reports of 30 October 1956 that printed the invention as fact (PDF p.552-558).
- A note in the appendix observes the identical formulations in both newspapers indicate the material was distributed to journalists in printed form, not independently investigated (PDF p.558).